Professor Glen L. Urban at MIT Sloan advocates a new style of marketing based on trust-building. One way to build this trust is to use an advisor to have a conversation with the customer rather than talking at the customer. ...

The main contribution of this thesis is a new solution concept for symmetric games (of complete information in strategic form), the exchangeable equilibrium. This is an intermediate notion between symmetric Nash and symmetric ...

This project investigates the use of a high speed, squirrel cage induction generator and power converter for producing DC electrical power onboard ships and submarines. Potential advantages of high speed induction generators ...

In this thesis we state and demonstrate solutions to three engineering problems that arise in magnetic resonance imaging RF excitation with parallel transmission (pTx) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI). ...

Despite decades of research, solar cell efficiencies struggle to get higher than 25%. This is due to two fundamental losses in the device: thermalization of high energy photons and transmission of low energy photons. In ...

In this thesis, we present a unified environment for running declarative specifications in the context of an imperative object-oriented programming language. Specifications are Alloy-like, written in first-order relational ...

For robots to effectively interact with the real world, they will need to perform complex tasks over long time horizons. This is a daunting challenge, but human ability to routinely solve these problems leads us to believe ...

Although systems with hardware support for fine-grained execution migration are becoming a reality, no concrete execution model or compiler exist for these machines. This limits the complexity of software that can be written ...

Ferroresonance can induce an undesired over-voltage often accompanied with a phase reversal which can damage power distribution transformers and motors and cause injury to the system operators. Similarly, under some ...

Competitive equilibrium provides a natural steady state for iterative combinatorial auctions that maximize social welfare, and therefore the first step in auction design is to establish its existence. Recent work by Baldwin ...

This thesis presents a virtual disk cluster called END, the Expandable Network Disk. END aggregates storage on a cluster of servers into a single virtual disk. END's main goals are to offer good performance during normal ...

A biocomputational pipeline was designed and implemented to mine through metagenomic datasets for novel Class 2 CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) single effectors, akin to the revolutionary ...